You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.